Henryk Kasperczak

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Jan Tomaszewski (left) and Henryk Kasperczak after defeating Brazil in 1974

Henryk Wojciech Kasperczak (born July 10, 1946 in Zabrze ) is a Polish football coach and former football player.

Career

Henryk Kasperczak (2007)
Henryk Kasperczak (2009)

Although Henryk Kasperczak was born across from Górnik Zabrze's stadium , he never played for his home club. Found not good enough by Zabrze, he went to the small provincial association FKS Stal Mielec in the mid-1960s. Mielec was still insignificant in the Polish football scene at that time. In 1967 he had to do his military service and switched to the Legia Warsaw Army Club for this time . Here he played with the future star Kazimierz Deyna in the second team and was spotted by the later national coach Kazimierz Górski . Back in Mielec , the big days of the small club began. Together with the two attackers Grzegorz Lato and Jan Domarski , Kasperczak won two Polish championships in 1973 and 1976 and became a national player. In the Polish national dress a scene will be remembered from the 1973 qualifying match against England at Wembley Stadium . The defensive midfielder Kasperczak fought his way to the ball, played to his colleague from Mielec Grzegorz Lato and the one from Domarski. Domarski scored the decisive goal that brought Poland to Germany for the 1974 World Cup and England was eliminated. The three players from the small town of Mielec created the sensation. At the World Cup a year later, Kasperczak won the bronze medal. At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal , he won the silver medal. He played a total of 73 games for the Polish national soccer team and scored five goals.

While still playing for Stal Mielec, Kasperczak was trained as a coach in Warsaw and at the end of his career he moved to France for FC Metz . At the end of his career, a sad situation at FC Metz decided his first coaching position. His French trainer Jean Snella became terminally ill with cancer and wanted Henryk Kasperczak to be his successor. This then led the club to the French Cup final three times . He later became the national coach of Tunisia and the Ivory Coast . With Tunisia he qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France. After these successes he returned to Poland as a coach and led Wisła Kraków to several championships. Since 2006 he has been the coach of the Senegalese national soccer team . When his team lost 3-1 to Angola in the second group game at the 2008 African Cup of Nations, he resigned the following day with immediate effect. From September 2008 to June 2009 Henryk Kasperczak coached the Polish record champion Górnik Zabrze . On March 15, 2010 he was again coach at Wisła Kraków. Kasperczak, however , was sacked in August 2010 after losing the Europa League qualification.

Player career

  • 1959–1965: Stal Zabrze (145 games / 8 goals)
  • 1965–1966: FKS Stal Mielec (18 games / 2 goals)
  • 1966–1968: Legia Warsaw II (56 games / 12 goals)
  • 1968–1978: FKS Stal Mielec (345 games / 23 goals)
  • 1978–1979: FC Metz (55 games / 11 goals)

Success as a player

  • 1 × World Cup third (1974)
  • 1 × Olympic silver medal (1976)
  • 2 × Polish champion (1973, 1976)
  • 2 × World Cup participation (1974, 1978)

Coaching career

Success as a trainer

  • 2 × French cup winners (1984, 1990)
  • 3 × Polish champion (2003, 2004, 2005)
  • 2 × Polish Cup Winner (2002, 2003 )
  • 1 × Vice Africa Champion with Tunisia (1996 South Africa)
  • 1 × World Cup participation with Tunisia (1998)
  • French Coach of the Year : 1990

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personal data
SURNAME Kasperczak, Henryk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kasperczak, Henryk Wojciech
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Zabrze